Principal Engineer (DevSecOps & AI)

TL;DR

Principal Engineer (DevSecOps & AI): Designing, building, and evolving highly automated CI/CD pipelines and secure software delivery platforms. Focus on embedding security controls directly into pipelines and enabling fast detection and recovery from pipeline or production failure.

Location: Hybrid (8 days/month), GBR - London, Canada Square; NLD - Alphen Aan Den Rijn

Company

hirify.global is a dynamic global technology company providing expert software and information solutions to professionals.

What you will do

• Design and build highly automated, scalable CI/CD pipelines for microservices, APIs, platform services, Infrastructure-as-Code, and AI/ML workloads.
• Embed security controls directly into pipelines, including SAST, DAST, SCA, container and image scanning, IaC security and policy checks, and SBOM generation and verification.
• Engineer platform automation using Kubernetes, container platforms, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, etc.), and GitOps patterns.
• Integrate observability into delivery pipelines with metrics, logs, and traces, enabling fast detection and recovery from pipeline or production failure.
• Act as a principal-level technical advisor across engineering teams, setting standards and reference implementations for CI/CD, secure delivery, and platform automation.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with a deep focus on DevSecOps, CI/CD, and platform automation.
• Proven track record of building and operating enterprise-scale automated delivery platforms.
• Extensive hands-on experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins), artifact repositories, and registries.
• Strong experience with one or more cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Hands-on experience implementing SAST, DAST, SCA, container and IaC security scanning, and policy-as-code.
• Strong coding skills in one or more languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java, Shell).

Nice to have

• Experience supporting AI/ML or Agentic AI pipelines.
• Familiarity with GitOps tooling (Argo CD, Flux).
• Exposure to regulated or highly audited environments.
• Experience contributing to internal developer platforms or golden paths.

Culture & Benefits

• Be part of a dynamic global technology company.
• Work in a hybrid environment (8 days/month).
• Opportunity to make a difference and have an impact.

Hiring process

• Candidates may be required to appear onsite at a hirify.global office as part of the recruitment process.
• Interviews are designed to assess individual skills, experiences, and communication style.
• The use of AI tools or external prompts during interviews is not allowed.